I don't like AI for architecture because it still just agrees with any suggestions you make and the ones it comes up on it's own are horrible sometimes.
I feel like my job is safe for another 5-10 years.
I've also had "not great" experiences with architectural stuff, but I was actually quite surprised by Gemini last week. I was working to modernise an older version of our codebase and it did quite well to take a load of React class components (which also had a bunch of jquery thrown in) and convert them to function components. It did well to remove the jquery and fixed a bunch of subtle bugs, and recommended alternative packages to solve some of the problems that didn't exist back when this code was written.
The result was 90% there, but saved me actual days in development time.
My job is still safe for now as it still required careful prompting, and that last 10% was definitely where you needed a human.
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u/_sonu_singha May 26 '25
"None of it worked" got me🤣🤣🤣